As one eased into the warmth, solemnity and festive cheer that comes with Easter, a few thoughts and observations caught the eye and ear. At a spiritual level, it was refreshing and welcoming to note how celebrants during Holy Week took great pains to include terms, analogies and examples from current diction and modern-day experiences during their sermons and eulogies.

“The priest was totally with it, man!” one caught on to a Justin Bieber-lookalike’s comment to his friend, as both walked out of church. “He even used the word ‘app’…unbelievable, dude” remarked the friend, who could’ve passed off as Usher’s long-lost Indian cousin.